Create ISO from wim

[mrbeatnik]

Hi again!

Should be an easy one...

I have a boot.wim from WDS.

Normally this would load from PXE and then allow you to authenticate and choose a image to multicast.

I tried using WAIK to create an ISO of this, so that I would hopefully get the same option from DVD, but when I load the ISO it starts the Windows 7 installation!

How can I take the boot.wim and get it to work the same way on an ISO?

I would like it to connect to the WDS server.

I tried:

copype.cmd x86 c:\PE\winpe_x86

Replaced all instances of winpe.wim and boot.wim in this new directory with my wim from the WDS server (I renamed it appropriately).

oscdimg -n -bc:\PE\winpe_x86\etfsboot.com c:\PE\winpe_x86\ISO c:\PE\winpe_x86\winpe_x86.iso

Thanks.

[Tripredacus]

That is the normal thing that would happen. You can take an unmodified boot.wim from a Vista (or 7 or 2008) install DVD, stick it in boot images, and WDS will know what to do with it. So this makes sense that you can take it and put it on a DVD and it starts to install.

To deploy using a DVD like this, you are going to want to go the route of Distribution Shares and Configuration Sets.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749066.aspx